[2] Arsenios's birth name was Theodorus Annitsalichos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αννητσαλήχος) and he was born in Kephalochori one of the six Christian villages of the region of Pharasa in Cappadocia and an early center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Besides Greek and Church Studies, he learned Armenian, Turkish and some French.

Metropolitan Paisios II sent him to Pharasa and the neighbouring villages as a priest, while he was also secretly teaching the Greek language to the children of the region, at that time belonging to the Ottoman Empire.

He was the respected spiritual guide of the villagers and helped the people a lot together with the mayor of Pharasa, at that time the father of Paisios of Mount Athos.

[4] After leading his parish to Corfu at the time of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, he died after three months.